Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream

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This 4-ingredient Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream boasts the same creamy deliciousness of traditional chocolate ice cream without all those fillers. Plus, it’s dairy free, vegan, and ready to eat in less than 10 minutes. Dessert is served! healthy chocolate ice cream in a bowl

Calling all Ice Cream Lovers!

We’re big ice cream fans over here at Fit Foodie Finds, so we set out to create our own healthy nice cream recipes that:
  1. Didn’t take forever to make or require an ice cream maker (haii, my kitchen doesn’t need another kitchen gadget that ONLY makes one thing).
  2. Wasn’t filled with a bunch of crap ingredients. So, here we are! Get ready for your new favorite chocolate nice cream! And it’s oh so easy to make, too.

Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream Ingredients

Let’s start by taking a little looksy at this ingredient list. It won’t take long to read through; we’ll wait ๐Ÿ˜€
  • Frozen sliced bananas
  • Cocoa powder
  • Unsweetened almond milk
  • vanilla extract

How to Make Healthy Nice Cream

With a little prep beforehand, this healthy chocolate nice cream can be whipped up in no time at all. We’ll walk ya through it with us:

Freeze Sliced Bananas

Simply slice bananas evenly and place on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper. Place the entire sheet in the freezer for at least 30 minutes. When you take your nanners out of the freezer, you’ll just need to scrape them off the parchment paper and place right in the blender (if you’re making this healthy nice cream right away), or into a ziploc or Stasher bag to keep in the freezer for later use. Freezing the sliced bananas on a baking sheet first will prevent your bananas from sticking together when you place them in a bag. Want a step-by-step on this process? WE GOT YOU healthy chocolate ice cream ingredients

Place all Ingredients in a High-Speed Blender

Measure out your frozen sliced bananas, cocoa powder, almond milk and vanilla extract and place it all in your high-speed blender. You’ll want a serious blender or food processor for this step to ensure all the bananas are blended to perfection. If you use your blender for smoothies with frozen ingredients, you’re good to go here!

Blend it Up

Blend up all your ingredients until smooth. Depending on how frozen solid your banana slices are, you may need to thin out your healthy ice cream with almond milk. We recommend thinning it with a tablespoon of almond milk at a time until you get your desired consistency. healthy chocolate ice cream in a blender

Serve or Freeze for Later

Because your banana slices were frozen when you started this recipe, the consistency of your healthy ice cream should be perfect to serve up with a soft serve consistency and enjoy immediately. But if you’re making this ahead of time, or would prefer to save some for later, line a loaf pan with parchment paper and pour your ice cream into the pan. Store covered (we used aluminum foil to cover the pan!) in your freezer and enjoy at your leisure.

Don’t Forget Toppings

We love serving and of our healthy ice cream recipes with chocolate chips, but feel free to get jazzy and serve with your favorite ice cream toppings like:
  • sprinkles
  • diced nuts
  • vegan whipped cream
  • chocolate syrup
  • fresh berries
  • in between 2 cookies as an ice cream sammie
healthy chocolate ice cream in a bowl

More Nice Cream Recipes

4.95 from 36 votes

Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream

This 4-ingredient Healthy Chocolate Nice Cream boasts the same creamy deliciousness of traditional chocolate ice cream without all those fillers. Plus, it’s dairy free, vegan, and ready to eat in less than 10 minutes. Dessert is served!
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 0 minutes
Total: 10 minutes
Servings: 2
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Ingredients 

  • 2 cups frozen sliced bananas
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon unsweetened almond milk*

Instructions 

  • Place all ingredients into a high-speed blender or Vitamix and mix on high until a smooth, thick consistency has been formed. Option to add more milk by the tablespoon as needed.
  • Serve immediately or transfer into a parchment-lined bread loaf. Then, place into the freezer for 1 to 2 hours to firm up.
  • Serve with chocolate chips.

Tips & Notes

  • Depending on how frozen your bananas are, you may need to add 1 to 2 more tablespoons of almond milk.

Watch It

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Nutrition

Calories: 171 kcal, Carbohydrates: 39 g, Protein: 4 g, Fat: 2 g, Fiber: 8 g, Sugar: 17 g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Sophie
Sophie
July 29, 2022 4:47 pm

5 stars
Delicious! I halved it and used about 2 tsp of milk instead of 1 1/2 tsp of milk, and froze it in a 2-cup pyrex for a little more than an hour. It hardened up and tasted like chocolate banana ice cream! It reminds me of chocolate covered bananas, and it is so DELISH!

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Sophie
Sophie
July 29, 2022 4:48 pm
Reply to  Sophie

5 stars
Also, made it multiple times. Always turns out amazing!

Sophie
Sophie
June 30, 2022 1:39 pm
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5 stars
I cut it in half and have made it two times by now. SO TASTY! So healthy, too, and you’d never even guess ๐Ÿ™‚

Sara
Sara
July 20, 2022 4:46 pm
Reply to  Sophie

Does it taste like bananas at all?

Sophie
Sophie
July 29, 2022 4:48 pm
Reply to  Sara

A little bit, not a lot.

Zoe Werner
Zoe Werner
July 12, 2021 4:30 pm
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5 stars
This recipe is amazing! I tried experimenting with other flavors but this came out the best 100%

Emily
Emily
March 23, 2021 6:13 pm
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5 stars
Love this recipe – who knew frozen bananas could turn into something just as satisfying as actual ice cream! In one of the batches I added some greek yogurt and peanut powder which turned out to be great additions. If you don’t eat it right out of the blender and choose to freeze it, it can stay for a long time but definitely needs to be thawed before eaten. I’ve portioned out some scoops into separate tupperwares to keep in the fridge so I can pull portions out instead of the entire loaf pan.

Courtney
Courtney
January 14, 2021 12:14 am
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5 stars
I love this recipe! So easy and delicious. My bananas were frozen solid so I used a bit more almond milk than the recipe calls for, but it still turned out great.

Linley Hanson
January 14, 2021 12:46 pm
Reply to  Courtney

Ah! So glad you you like it! It’s one of my favorites!

Allison
Allison
August 14, 2020 4:12 pm
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5 stars
As the recipe says, I needed to add quite a bit more almond milk than 1 TBS, but I didn’t mind since it’s so low calorie. I probably ended up using almost a cup. The finished product was heaven! I left it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes after mixing it up and it had a great soft-serve like consistency.

Lee Funke
August 15, 2020 6:25 am
Reply to  Allison

Hi! Next time you can let your bananas thaw just a tad and then you won’t have to add as much!

Ruthie Stewart
Ruthie Stewart
June 13, 2020 8:47 pm

Oh my gosh, this was so so soooo delicious. I made it yesterday and had it today for a Saturday breakfast ๐Ÿ˜‹ Iโ€™ve made nice cream before, but I donโ€™t usually freeze it after blending it, it really made a difference!! Freezing it after blending really helped make it taste EXACTLY like traditional ice cream. Satisfied my chocolate craving for sure.
Thank you so much for this recipe!

Dana
Dana
June 10, 2020 2:37 am

Update-I’ve continued to make this. I’ve made it many times as a bedtime snack for over a week. Easy and delicious! Once I froze for 30 min or so, but I did not achieve the store bought appearance of the scoops in the photo. I’d like to get that look to entice my kids to try it. Any suggestions? Still tastes delicious!

Lee Funke
June 14, 2020 2:46 pm
Reply to  Dana

Thanks so much for your review! I would say that 1-2 hours is the sweet spot for a “scoop.” Or, you can freeze over night and then let it thaw for a bit before scooping!

Dana
Dana
May 31, 2020 9:26 pm
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5 stars
I have made this 3 times so far as a bedtime snack. I am preparing to make it right now also. Twice I ate it as soft serve, once frozen. The first time I made it, my first few spoonfuls made me think the chocolate was too dark (I use Navitas organic cacao powder). But as I took my third spoonful I began thinking, “this tastes pretty good!” Well, mine was not two servings. It was one. I ate it all, and have each time I made it. It takes a tiny bit of effort (using the stated measurements) because I have to scrape the sides of my vitamix about 3 times. But it is definitely worth it. Can’t wait to have room in my freezer to try the other flavors!

Lee Funke
June 1, 2020 3:45 pm
Reply to  Dana

So glad you love this recipe!

Leyla Mcdermott
Leyla Mcdermott
May 4, 2020 10:42 am
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5 stars
Was sceptical but was surprisingly delicious!! A healthy and viable alternative to the naughty snack cupboard.